Today's Lesson For Kids: Don't Flash Around Your Loaded Gun
New Orleans Hornets Rasual Butler was arrested Monday morning and charged for carrying a concealed weapon and wrongful display of a firearm.
Rasual Butler is an idiot. Really, it's as simple as that.
Here is the summarized version of the incident according to South Beach police and witnesses. As Butler was leaving Club Mansion, he started pointing his gun at and threatening several people. The police arrived shortly thereafter to find Butler sitting in the back of his Navigator. He told the officers the gun was on the floorboard. They found a gun that was "loaded, with a round in the chamber, ready to fire."
He was taken in to the shop, though he maintained, "I'm a professional athlete, I didn't do anything wrong."
I love how the go-to defense for any South Beach arrest has to do with "athlete" and "didn't do anything wrong." I mean, they screwed Gilbert Arenas over with a disobeying the police arrest. Still, I don't see how that compares. Rasual, you told the cops you were carrying a gun that you legally couldn't carry in Florida! Maybe if you hadn't threatened other club-goers with it, your civil rights wouldn't have been violated by those pesky police officers.
Again, Rasual Butler is an idiot. Don't let your kids be idiots.
1 comments:
Harsh.
I agree that it was a dumb move, but Rasual has done some good stuff in his time. He's done a lot of charity work with African kids and sends supplies over there all the time.
He should suffer the consequences of his actions, but let's not go making assumptions about his character because of an isolated incident.
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